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re: Does xp slow my pc down? Tuesday, October 30, 2001 at 3:55 pm Posted by Peter (2 messages posted) I was told by a Microsoft Certified guy that XP will use as much ram as it can get. When asked what that meant, he told me i could upgrade from my 256 to 512 and that would be a good idea. Whether he was trying sell me a chunk of memory or if it is true, at the current price of memory, i did it.. On Tuesday, October 30, 2001 at 2:53 pm, sams wrote: >I just installed XP. Now, when I scroll a page on the internet, it just goes frame >by frame. Like it really has problems handling the web page. What is going on? I >adjusted the settings to minimal, but it doesn't get any better. It's annoying to >surf like this. >I had no problems like this running on Win98... >I have a Pentium III 500 Mhz processor and 256 MB RAM. Isn't that enough for xp? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Does xp slow my pc down? Tuesday, October 30, 2001 at 9:26 pm Posted by Jim Rockford (1 messages posted) Just a guess... If you are scrolling with a wheel mouse, look at the following setting and ensure it is not checked: Start > Control Panel > Printers and Other Hardware > Mouse > Wheel > One screen at a time. On Tuesday, October 30, 2001 at 2:53 pm, sams wrote: >I just installed XP. Now, when I scroll a page on the internet, it just goes frame >by frame. Like it really has problems handling the web page. What is going on? I >adjusted the settings to minimal, but it doesn't get any better. It's annoying to >surf like this. >I had no problems like this running on Win98... >I have a Pentium III 500 Mhz processor and 256 MB RAM. Isn't that enough for xp? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Does xp slow my pc down? Tuesday, October 30, 2001 at 9:47 pm Posted by Graybeard (4 messages posted) I'm running XP on a 450 PII and have no noticable slowdown at all. I do have 386 megs of ram. I notice no internet slowdown at all. On Tuesday, October 30, 2001 at 2:53 pm, sams wrote: >I just installed XP. Now, when I scroll a page on the internet, it just goes frame >by frame. Like it really has problems handling the web page. What is going on? I >adjusted the settings to minimal, but it doesn't get any better. It's annoying to >surf like this. >I had no problems like this running on Win98... >I have a Pentium III 500 Mhz processor and 256 MB RAM. Isn't that enough for xp? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Does xp slow my pc down? Wednesday, October 31, 2001 at 4:02 am Posted by Kristof (2 messages posted) Hi, On the beginning, I had the same proble as you, and I solved it changing the screen resolution. by default it was set to the highest color resolution on the screen resolution, I use the 16bit colors 1024*768 pixels wich is good enough even to see the high resolution pictures! On Tuesday, October 30, 2001 at 2:53 pm, sams wrote: >I just installed XP. Now, when I scroll a page on the internet, it just goes frame >by frame. Like it really has problems handling the web page. What is going on? I >adjusted the settings to minimal, but it doesn't get any better. It's annoying to >surf like this. >I had no problems like this running on Win98... >I have a Pentium III 500 Mhz processor and 256 MB RAM. Isn't that enough for xp? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Does xp slow my pc down? Wednesday, October 31, 2001 at 5:49 am Posted by MAXI (16 messages posted) On Tuesday, October 30, 2001 at 2:53 pm, sams wrote: >I just installed XP. Now, when I scroll a page on the internet, it just goes frame >by frame. Like it really has problems handling the web page. What is going on? I >adjusted the settings to minimal, but it doesn't get any better. It's annoying to >surf like this. >I had no problems like this running on Win98... >I have a Pentium III 500 Mhz processor and 256 MB RAM. Isn't that enough for xp? check out this site - http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouse/download.asp for updated mice software if ur using any of the microsoft intelli mices...or if not,delete ur current dial up connection and createnew ones due to the fact after installation of xp,they might be corrupted... [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Does xp slow my pc down? Wednesday, October 31, 2001 at 8:33 am Posted by Dave (3 messages posted) XP shouldn't slow down your system at all, if anything, it should run smoother. But really, I'm suprised so many people are running out to buy XP. I'm waiting for XP SE. Doesn't XP use NTFS, or was that Deus Ex.....? On Tuesday, October 30, 2001 at 2:53 pm, sams wrote: >I just installed XP. Now, when I scroll a page on the internet, it just goes frame >by frame. Like it really has problems handling the web page. What is going on? I >adjusted the settings to minimal, but it doesn't get any better. It's annoying to >surf like this. >I had no problems like this running on Win98... >I have a Pentium III 500 Mhz processor and 256 MB RAM. Isn't that enough for xp? [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum